Red Crescent has announced that there are approximately half a million displaced people in Libya. (h/t Rantburg)
The Libyan Red Crescent has reported that well over half a million Libyans are now displaced because of ongoing fighting and instability within the country.  It put the figure at 557,212 individuals, representing 103,821 families. [Read More…]
This is all Obama’s fault. Libya was a war of choice. They had no WMD. There was no ISIS or al Qaeda there before the Obama led NATO invasion. Yet Obama toppled Gaddafi with no apparent plan for the aftermath.
And now it’s a giant man made catastrophe.
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought on Saturday to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories.
Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address that Gaddafi’s death and the announcement that all U.S. troops would be removed from Iraq this year were “powerful reminders of how we’ve renewed American leadership in the world.”
Nice job.
Media outrage flashback – 2003
Slate Magazine – Why didn’t we protect the National Museum and Library in Baghdad?
They were more outraged about the museum in Iraq then the displaced people of Libya.
